Mmf.
The fabled DT One Network from the since dissolved Dublin Transportation Agency.
H writes;
“I found this bit of aspiration today, Dated from Oct 2000…Oh how we dreamed!”
Yearly Archives: 2014
Saturday August 23: Vestibule x White Collar Boy: The Drifter, Matt Karmil, Twinkranes, White Collar Boy, Somerville @ Merrion Square, Dublin (3pm – 11pm, €20)
Nialler9 writes:
“An all-day outdoor music party in Merrion Square to celebrate Aoife Tunney’s exhibition of contemporary art that has resided in the square since May, electronic duo White Collar Boy have curated a lineup of international DJs and talent from closer to home including the Connemara spectral folk singer Somerville and the motorik-rock of Twinkranes.”
In Your Face
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Phrenology
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ADW!
EOIN!
GAG!
KIN!
Under one roof!!
Gearoid O’Dea writes:
‘Landmarked’ is a street art exhibition taking place August 21st to the 4th September in The Mart, Rathmines Dublin. Proudly supported by Tiger beer the show will focus on the idea that landmarks can be created in the urban environment through the work of street artists.
Their art is breathing life into public space. The ‘Landmarked’ exhibition will bring some of the best elements of their work under the roof of the iconic fire station in Rathmines – a landmark in itself….”
Landmarked – Street Art Exhibition, The Mart, Rathmines (Facebook)
How Many?
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Up to 120 BMW cars stolen in a sophisticated cross-border key cloning racket were to be broken up and shipped to Latvia, the High Court in Belfast has heard. An eastern European crime gang is suspected to be behind the theft of the cars from Dublin. They then moved them to garages in Northern Ireland, prosecutors said.
A prosecuting lawyer said two co-accused are believed to have travelled from England to help transport the cars. “Police believe this gang are operating in different jurisdictions,” the lawyer said. “Approximately 120 BMWs were stolen from the greater Dublin area since September 2013.” The lawyer said: “Since the arrests, there have been no reported thefts of BMWs in the Dublin area. Prior to this, they were almost on a nightly basis.”
120 BMW cars ‘stolen to be broken up and sent to Latvia’ (BBC News)
File Pic: James Horan/Photocall Ireland
Bell Lane coffee boss Stephen Bell
A kilo of Mullingar-based Artisan coffee roasters Bell Lane espresso blend Dragonfly and a kilo of their Moondust blend PLUS a Hario home grinder was on offer.
We asked YOU: why espresso?
You answered shakily in your dozens.
Runners up:
“Espresso is the finest member of the Italian coffee family because it’s like myself! Incredibly dark and bitter and is best consumed in small doses.” (Optimus Grime)
“Espresso is the finest member of the Italian coffee family because like an elderly Italian Uncle, it’ll smack you across the face, pull your cheeks and say “Why you no married, eh? Too good for the ladies Mistera Biggatheshot” (Murtles)
“Espresso is the finest member of the Italian coffee family because IT GETS SH*T DONE.” (Mikey)
“Espresso is the finest member of the Italian coffee family because without it I wouldn’t get to tut-tut in my head at people who constantly pronounce it as ECKK-SPRESOH…..kinda like the way some people keep on using the word PANINI to incorrectly describe their favourite ‘Cuisine de France-based toasted sandwich roll that they are ordering at the deli counter during lunchtime which in fact is the plural term (PANINO being the singular term e.g. may I have one ham and cheese panino please). So there.” (Martco)
Winner:
“Espresso is the finest member of the Italian coffee family because it is the ultimate, finely-tuned expression of hundreds of years of coffee cultivation. It is humanity’s greatest achievement distilled into one small shot of earthy, roasted goodness. I like coffee. Weeeeee!” (Simon)
Thanks all
Previously: Do You Like Espresso
Thanks Eoin
Olive trees in Hebron, Palestine
Elaine Bradley is a human rights activist working on the West Bank.
She writes this morning.
Today I learned the skill of bilocation. As I stood attentively in a hospital ward in Hebron, listening to the 19-year-old woman who had both her legs blown off by an Israeli drone as she fled her bombed house with husband and two little children; as I looked at her pale face and sunken eyes; saw the bandage on her broken arm; the bandaged stumps where her legs should be; as I watched her embarrassedly trying to lengthen her nightgown over the stumps, as I listened to the doctor tell me later how she needed a skin graft from half way down her back due to severe burns; as I listened to him tell me how she lost her unborn child; that her husband – in a different hospital – had also lost a leg and was severely burnt; as I listened as he told me that one of her two children is in a Jerusalem hospital with severe burns; as the doctor reminded me that drones have cameras and therefore the targetting of this family was deliberate; as he told me of the psychological trauma she is experiencing, compounded by being separated from her family; as I looked into her pained eyes and listened to this account and three more besides including the story of 9-year-old Hala, the strange fruit found in an olive tree with a fractured skull and broken limbs – blown there by the bomb blast that killed her mother and siblings; as I heard the doctor tell me of the 10,000 people injured in Gaza, 2/3 of these injuries serious – similar to those I witnessed today; as I listened to all this and remembered the details, remembered to turn on and off my recorder, as I smiled in response to sad smiles and greeted people and said thank you and offered good wishes; as I did my job, noticing details, breathing deep, staying calm, being present, I simultaneously stood on the top of a cliff in Allihies facing the wild Atlantic and I screamed and screamed my despair to the wind and the crashing waves.
Elaine Bradley
Previously: Dear Israelis
Senator Ronan Mullen
Twitter’s reaction to Ronan Mullen’s appearance on Today with Sean O’Rourke earlier.
Seemed to go well.